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The reason Microsoft decided to open source MS-DOS 4.0 in the first place was because a young British software researcher, Conor Hyde, was corresponding with Ray Ozzie, former Chief Technology ...

Originally, an English researcher named Connor "Starfrost" Hyde wanted to talk to former Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie, who was working for Lotus at the time, about software from his collection ...

The rationale for this release was because former Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie came across beta binaries on DOS floppy disks in his collection. The release stemmed from a correspondence with British ...

There’s a whole story there, and it involves former Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie and others. And Hyde plans to document the relationship between DOS 4, MT-DOS, and what would ...

Microsoft decided to open source MS-DOS 4 after a young English researcher (Connor "Starfrost" Hyde) got in touch with Ray Ozzie. The company's former Chief Technical Officer had some unreleased ...

The decision to open source MS-DOS 4.00 stems from recent correspondence between a researcher named Connor “Starfrost” Hyde and former Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie. While exploring Ozzie’s collection of ...

Hyde corresponded with Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie, who found the dusty code in his collection of floppy disks. Ozzie's disks, which appear to date back to 1984, contain unreleased ...

A young English researcher named Connor “Starfrost” Hyde recently corresponded with former Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie about some of the software in his collection. Amongst the ...

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It's no joke. Microsoft and IBM have joined forces to open-source the 1988 operating system MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT License. Why? Well, why not? That got Hanselman and Wilcox digging into the ...